When a man sleeps he is shut up within the narrow activities of his physical life. He lives, but he knows not the varied relations of his life to his surroundings, - therefore he knows not himself.
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Zum Autor"You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."
"The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition."
"The world by day is like European music; a flowing concourse of vast harmony, composed of concord and discord and many disconnected fragments. And the night world is our Indian music; one pure, deep and tender raga."
"The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable."
"Those who own much have much to fear."