Quotes About Balance

Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself as a man, but I register and receive with the soul of a woman. The only really good artists are feminine. I can't admit the existence of an artist whose dominant personality is masculine.

You can achieve the greatest things in the world, but if it is at the cost of your marriage or family, it is worth nothing.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him...

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

Puurheid in beweging.

The overexamined life, Claire, it's not worth living.

Perhaps she could use the sounds, punctuate them with some of the other birdsong she had taped, but the more she thought about it, the more convinced she was that sound was something to leave alone, that it was not the bulldozers nor the olive trees nor the buzzing strobe lights that needed attention, but the quietness itself.

Philosophie bedeutet, sein Leben zu denken und sein Denken zu leben. Besser denken um besser zu leben.

To the seeing eye decay is as fair as growth, and death as life.