Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben Quotes

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We have aimed at popularity in the best sense of that term. The truly popular writer never sinks into the vulgar crowd. He rather raises the masses by bringing the highest subjects within their comprehension, making them, without a show of erudition, easily understood

Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
Those views of life which deify pleasure are less likely to yield it.

Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
The man dissatisfied with the world will be dissatisfied with himself, so as to be continually eaten up by his own ill humor. And in such a state of mind how can he retain health?

Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
Our minds are so constituted that a change of objects brings nearly as much relief as actual repose.

Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
True philosophy is a living wisdom, for which there is no death.

Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
You must master an object before you attempt to despise it.

Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
We cannot avoid moodiness; but we may turn to account, as does the poet, the various dispositions of the mind, or give them form and shape, as the sculptor his marble.

Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
It is not enough to contemplate ourselves objectively; we must also treat ourselves objectively.

Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
Composition, even when we have no idea of appearing in print, is an excellent dietetic tonic.... The best and quickest mode of banishing a painful impression, or a torturing feeling, is to give it expression in words. We thus relieve the mind from present, and fortify it against future pangs.

Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
It has been well remarked of the poems of Hafiz, that their refreshing influence does not depend so much on the sense of the words as on the tone of mind produced in the reader.

Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben