Quotes to inspire and reflect

Life well spent is long.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

He who walks straight rarely falls.

Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

The desire to know is natural to good men.

Vows begin when hope dies.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

The greater the man’s soul, the deeper he loves.

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything.

An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.

Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.

The moment is timeless.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.

The knowledge of all things is possible.

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your 9 senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

I love those who can smile in trouble

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.