“An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford.” KnowsMindHeartEarthHeavenImaginationHigherHighestPeacefulTranquilityEverlastingMy ImaginationFelicityPeaceful Mind Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.” MindIdeasSoulLosesImaginationNaturalSpacePleasureExistenceSilenceFireMeditationSubjectsProduceTasteSolitudeIntellectualEternityProfoundRaisedDelightPursuitEnthusiasmToneEnjoymentConceptionHeroicContemplatingSublimeRefinedAdoptingDarts Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank leaf in our book of life. Painful and disagreeable ideas vanish from the mind that can fix its attention upon any subject.” MindMayBookIdeasCoursesAttentionStudySubjectsPainfulDisappointmentPursueFixedMelancholyEndeavorBlankLeafsDisagreeableBook Of LifePain In Life Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way calculated to seduce any but weak but weak minds; few of their heroines are happily disposed of.” WayMindForceSinNovelReaderConsequenceFairsWeakHeroinesSeducingWeak Minds Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.” MindStatesEnoughPhilosophyHighestContentmentState Of MindPossessedAttainment Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.” MindHumansMeanGreaterGainsResourcesLaborCertaintyRelyProportionHuman MindDeprivedExertion Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which solitude is capable of affording, the mind must not be impelled to it by melancholy and discontent, but by a real distaste to the idle pleasures of the world, a rational contempt for the deceitful joys of life, and just apprehensions of being corrupted and seduced by its insinuating and destructive gayeties.” WorldMindRealJoyPleasureSolitudeCapableAdvantageIndependenceNobleRationalAcquireDestructiveMelancholyContemptIdleDiscontentApprehensionJoy Of LifeDeceitfulDistasteAffording Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind.” WantMindActionLife IsTimeHoursEconomySubjectsTortureResolutionRetirementShadeOur ActionsNeglectedYokeSorrowfulGood HumorLamentation Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind has no enjoyment, and which only afford a temporary relief to languor by steeping the senses in forgetfulness; but in the precious pleasures of the intellect, so easily accessible by all mankind, the great have no exclusive privilege; for such enjoyments are only to be procured by our own industry.” MindMayPleasureRichMankindIndustryCapableClaimsPrivilegeIntellectSensesEnjoymentReliefTemporaryExclusiveForgetfulnessLuxuriousTemporary Relief Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
