To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.[Also known as:]You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
What do most people mean when they say that? So young. Something innocent, something appealing, something helpless. But youth is not that! Youth is crude, youth is strong, youth is powerful – yes, and cruel! And one thing more – youth is vulnerable.
Two people rarely see the same thing.
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse…
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
The right perception of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.[Richtiges Auffassen einer Sache und Mißverstehn der gleichen Sache schließen einander nicht vollständig aus.]
Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an “always future hollow,” for we are always future to ourselves.[La perception se dépasse naturellement vers l’action; mieux, elle ne peut se dévoiler que dans et par des projets d’action. Le monde se dévoile comme un « creux toujours futur », parce que nous sommes toujours futurs a nous-mémes.]
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else’s plan for you.
Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine without batting an eyelash and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least! Women are wonderful realists.
With the eyes of the mind one can see more than with the eyes of the body.
