Эрнст Фейхтерслебен цитаты
Эрнст Фейхтерслебен
Дата рождения: 29. Апрель 1806
Дата смерти: 3. Сентябрь 1849
Другие имена: Ernst Freiherr von Feuchtersleben
Барон Эрнст Мария Иоганн Карл фон Фейхтерслебен — австрийский учёный, хирург, психиатр, писатель, поэт, философ, литературный критик. Wikipedia
Цитаты Эрнст Фейхтерслебен
„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
The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)
„We live in stormy and unsettled times. Hence we may confer a benefit, not only on ourselves, but on others, by diverting attention from the exciting circumstances of the present day—from the disheartening eccentricities of a literature which meanders in a thousand frivolous directions—to the calm regions where the inner man, self-examined, submits himself to moral treatment. Here our connection with things, our object, our duty, become clear; and, while we quietly separate ourselves from a world which is unable to assure us of anything, we feel that the joy we thought lost again returns, and that a second innocence spreads its clear and tranquillizing light over human existence. The child may amuse himself with childish rhymes. Man should find his recreation in reflecting on his relation to the things of this life. To all has this power been vouchsafed; by all should it be exercised.“
— Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)
„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
The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)
„It is not enough to contemplate ourselves objectively; we must also treat ourselves objectively.“
— Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)
„True philosophy is a living wisdom, for which there is no death.“
— Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)
„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
The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)
„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
The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)
„You must master an object before you attempt to despise it.“
— Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)
„Those views of life which deify pleasure are less likely to yield it.“
— Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)
„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
The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)
„Our minds are so constituted that a change of objects brings nearly as much relief as actual repose.“
— Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)
„To correct the tribe of our younger poets we shall soon require the aid of a physician, not of a critic. Their history may be told in a few words. A young man educated, or rather mis-educated, without experience, without study, without any definite tendency, without the power of exertion, or of tasting any genuine enjoyment, becomes conscious of his miserable oscillation between existence and non-existence —between not having lived and not being about to live—between a barren past and a barren future. He now takes to novel reading, frequents the theatres, compares himself to heroes or poets, and makes verses. All on a sudden the thought flashes across his mind that his unhappy condition is connected with the unfilled profundity of his feelings—with an unsatisfied yearning of the soul. He rushes headlong into the ocean of melancholy, and indulges in expressions with which the poetic springs of latter years have inundated us; he bathes in these waters, and contemplates his own image reflected from their surface.“
— Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
Источник: The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838), pp. 136-137
„A treatise on mental dietetics would be imperfect without some special notice of that most irrational and melancholy of all human torments, hypochondriasis. Reason, morality, wit, and even religion, have endeavoured by every possible means to exorcise this demon. By pamphlets and by books—in tragedy and in comedy — from the pulpit and on the stage, it has been denounced and ridiculed.“
— Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
Источник: The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838), p. 125
