Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
This quote metaphorically implies that people tend to encounter more difficulties or obstacles in small, insignificant matters (symbolized by pebbles) rather than in significant or monumental challenges (symbolized by mountains).
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.