Maurice Maeterlinck > Quotes

“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee

“When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck

“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck

“As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the abyss, and when we return to the surface the drop of water on our pale fingertips no longer resembles the sea from which it comes. We delude ourselves that we have discovered a wonderful treasure trove, and when we return to the light of day we find that we have brought back only false stones and shards of glass; and yet the treasure goes on glimmering in the dark, unaltered.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble

“We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble

“Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck

“اگر مغز خالی هم مثل شکم خالی سرو صدا
!می کرد، انسان خیلی عاقل تر از اینها بود”
― Maurice Maeterlinck

“To learn to love, one must first learn to see.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble

“Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favourable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee

“به نظر من اگر مرگ در دنیا نبود، بشر به آن محتاج بود و می بایست آن را خلق كند تا از چنگال كسالتهای زندگی رهایی یابد. در حقیقت بسیاری از ما پیش از مردن، مرده هستیم؛ برای اینكه همه چیز خود را از دست داده ایم”
― Maurice Maeterlinck

“Besides, I myself have now for a long time ceased to look for anything more beautiful in this world, or more interesting, than the truth; or at least than the effort one is able to make towards the truth.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee

“اگر مغز خالی هم مثل شکم خالی سرو صدا
! می کرد، انسان خیلی عاقل تر از اینها بود”
― Maurice Maeterlinck

“Bees will not work except in darkness;
Thought will not work except in Silence;
neither will Virtue Work except in secrecy.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble

“.چیزی را که ما نمی توانیم بفهمیم ضد و نقیض زندگی انسان است

زیرا از یک طرف طبیعت یا خدا انسان را آفریده که حتما مرتکب گناه می شود و از طرف دیگر به ما می گویند که هر کسی که مرتکب گناه
!!!گردید در جهان مجازات خواهد دید
بهتر این بود که از روز نخست ما را طوری می آفریدند که قدرت ارتکاب گناه را نداشته باشیم، نه آنکه ما را بیافرینند و بعد کیفر بدهند”
― Maurice Maeterlinck

“At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future tradition has placed 10 000 men to guard the past”
― Maurice Maeterlinck

“For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but evil, you will always see evil triumphant; but if you have learned to let your glance rest on sincerity, simpleness, truth, you will ever discover, deep down in all things, the silent overpowering victory of that which you love.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny

“خدا» یعنی»
ناتوانی یک موجود که نمی تواند وجود نداشته باشد”
― Maurice Maeterlinck

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another ...”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble

“Thousands of channels there are through which the beauty of your soul may sail even unto our thoughts. Above all is there the wonderful, central channel of love.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble

“برای چه توقع دارید كه خیالات، تصورات، احساسات، اقدامات و به طور خلاصه زندگی ما آزاد باشد و حال آنكه به چشم خود می بینیم كهكشانهای بزرگ كه منظومه خورشیدی ما در برابر آنها هیچ است، در حركات خود آزاد نیستند و مجبور شده اند كه خط سیر ویژه ای را پیموده و از قوانین خاصی پیروی كنند”
― Maurice Maeterlinck

“Before we can bring happiness to others, we first must be happy ourselves; nor will happiness abide within us unless we confer it on others. If there be a smile upon our lips, those around us will soon smile too; and our happiness will become the truer and deeper as we see that these others are happy. "It is not seemly that I, who, willingly, have brought sorrow to none, should permit myself to be sad," said Marcus Aurelius, in one of his noblest passages.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny

“بیچاره شیطان در کره خاکی بدنام شده است.زیرا شیطان جز خود ما هیچکس نیست،ما برای اینکه خودمان را در حضور خود تبرئه کنیم،تمام کینه ها ،حسدها ،دشمنی ها و بیرحمی ها را در وجود موهومی به نام شیطان جا داده ایم”
― Maurice Maeterlinck

“Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?”
― Maurice Maeterlinck

“We should tell ourselves, once and for all, that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power. Herein is no egoism, or pride. To become effectually generous and sincerely humble there must be within us a confident, tranquil, and clear comprehension of all that we owe to ourselves.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny

“Be good at the depth of you, and you will discover that those who surround you will be good even to the same depths. Nothing responds more infallibly to the secret cry of goodness than the secret cry of goodness that is near. While you are actively good in the invisible, all those who approach you will unconsciously do things that they could not do by the side of any other man.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble

“:نويسنده كتاب "عقل الملل" نوشته است
با دنيا همانطور كه هست كنار بيائيد

ولی اگر ما همانطوری كه دنيا هست با او كنار می آمديم، هنوز تمدن ما نظير تمدن دوره سنگ بود”
― Maurice Maeterlinck

“A thought that is almost beautiful – a thought that you speak not, but that you cherish within you at this moment, will irradiate you as though you were a transparent vase.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble

“Sobald wir etwas aussprechen, entwerten wir es seltsam. Wir glauben in die Tiefe der Abgründe hinabgetaucht zu sein, und wenn wir wieder an die Oberfläche kommen, gleicht der Wassertropfen an unseren bleichen Fingerspitzen nicht mehr dem Meere, dem er entstammt. Wir wähnen eine Schatzgrube wunderbarer Schätze entdeckt zu haben, und wenn wir wieder ans Tageslicht kommen, haben wir nur falsche Steine und Glasscherben mitgebracht; und trotzdem schimmert der Schatz im Finstern unverändert.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble

“Must we always be warned, and can we only fall on our knees when some one is there to tell us that God is passing by? If you have loved profoundly you have needed no one to tell you that your soul was a thing as great in itself as the world; that the stars, the flowers, the waves of night and sea were not solitary; that it was on the threshold of appearances that everything began, but nothing ended, and that the very lips you kissed belonged to a creature who was loftier, much purer, and much more beautiful than the one whom your arms enfolded.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble

“Never for an instant does God cease to speak; but no one thinks of opening the doors. And yet, with a little watchfulness, it were not difficult to hear the word that God must speak concerning our every act.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble