Quotes by Lucian Blaga

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When you make assessments, positive or negative, about a man, about his deeds or his work, don't forget that they are also implicitly a certificate that you give yourself regarding the strength and level of your own critical spirit. By any criticism of another, you are somehow betraying who you are and where you stand.

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Many times it is a duty to see in darker colors than it actually is; so that from this view springs a more determined struggle for the better.

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An aphorism is a simple grain of noble metal but it can have the weight of a world... aphoristic literature is the salt of thought...

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If the creators of art - the poet, the painter, the sculptor - were competitors of Nature, it is to be assumed that Nature herself would have assassinated and exterminated the tribe of these people. The very simple fact that the artist still exists is proof that his purpose is not to do the same thing with Nature.

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Hermetic Poetry - The Ivory Tower Enclosed in a Poet.

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Through his works, the artist creates an alibi for the Last Judgment.

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In front of a new, authentic poet, you always have the paradoxical and wonderful feeling that you suddenly understand a language hitherto unknown to you, for the learning of which you have made no effort.

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The poet who lives only through and from feelings is a slave to expedients.

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Poetry is an art of the word only to the extent that it is also an art of the non-word.

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Art cannot be isolated from the other branches of culture, and... it cannot claim privilege. It can neither dominate the other branches of culture, nor substitute for them, nor divorce them.

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The opinion that an artistic work must be liked immediately, without any prior preparation, is an invention of a childish aesthetic.

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The original function of the poet: that of constantly extending, through the myths he creates, reality in the story.

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Any aphorism must be formulated in such a way that it says more than it says.

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Classicism without any romantic element is not classicism, but academicism.

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The "essayist" is the novelist of an idea.

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Philosophy elevates poetry to the rank of principle.

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There are deep things which in the light of art can be understood much more clearly than in the light of science. It is said that the water of a sea is more transparent in the light of the moon than in the light of the sun.

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The works of art... should be the expression of personalities, who have their consciousness crystallized in a determined conception of being and the purpose of existence, personalities rich in inner life, in questions, in doubts, in adventures and thoughts.

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Art is not meant to reproduce only a given state; art must restore life in its eternal creative movement, history in the dynamics of its aspirations, and thereby become an unparalleled stimulus to the exact realization of these aspirations.

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Without a persistent deepening into the movements and social upheavals of the time, without a penetration into the hidden instincts of the nation, without the formation of broad views of life and nature, without the knowledge of other cultures of our time and past times, to which we assert ourselves and we crystallize our own ethnic-cultural spirit, how do artists imagine giving the world a work of art, in which all the conscious and unconscious beginnings of a human being can materialize?

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Any older work of art has two authors: the artist who created it and the time that added the patina that contributes so much to the work's charm. A few centuries turn the sole original author into a mere collaborator on his own work.

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I cannot conceive of art without daring. But true art dims them, while art made for snobs inflates them.

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Works of art, the religion of a time, borrow their character, rhythm, style, vigor from a spiritual attitude towards the world and life...

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A literature that is fully aware of its mission does not aspire to become only an ensemble of original creations, however impressive such an ensemble may be in its proportions. Any literature must also become a mirror of universal literature.

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The poet is the only being who carries his heart apart from himself.

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the poet. A blood donor at the hospital of words.

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The memory: ...greenhouse of past happiness.

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Any memory is only after injuries...

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Struggle succeeds especially those who love struggle more than success.

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In the name of love for our neighbor, we are asked at every turn to sacrifice ourselves for the "selfishness" of others.

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"Love your neighbor as yourself." Strange: in this commandment of altruistic morality, selfishness is proposed as an example to follow.

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Not infrequently we are as far from the "truth" as we are, only because we shy away from saying absurdities.

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You do not enrich your soul with small truths; who would make his fortune by collecting the gold dust scattered on the earth?

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Great truths grow only from a soil from which also grow great roots. He who does not have the courage to "wrong" will never discover great truths.

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It would be extremely unfortunate if the truth were always "in the middle". This would make it the prerogative of mediocrity.

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If you hate someone, think about whether it makes sense; but if you love someone, don't think about whether it makes sense.

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The fact that all life on earth ends in death does not prove that the purpose of life is death.

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So many trees break under the weight of their own crops, even though the wild winds could not crack them.

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The soul has secrets as easy as a shadow: as soon as we try to illuminate them, they disappear immediately.

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Before I was born, I was nothing for an entire eternity. Am I now afraid of the non-existence that I had the opportunity to get used to for an eternity?

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Those who prefer the struggle to success are the ones who emerge victorious from the struggle.

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When you are on the ground, you can stand or move as you wish, but when you are flying, you can only move.

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The song has vanished into nothingness, it is no longer real, and it is no longer in the fairy tale.

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If you want to be happy, set yourself any goal, just one: happiness.

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Self-cultivation is a truly community interest activity.

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Only the smallest and largest actions do not depend on our will.

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The fact that the sun rises earlier in some places does not mean that the sun lasts longer there.

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After sacrificing to the sun, each firefly believes that it replaces the sun.

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The one who plans the most usually gives in to the moment just as much as the one who doesn't plan anything.

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The steam rising from a dirty puddle is as pure as the steam rising from the cleanest river.

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There are people with very strange constitutions: they cannot live without suffering. When they no longer suffer from anything, they become imaginary patients. Not only individual people, but also entire eras like to suffer like this.

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The extent to which we have made comfort our principle of life is also evident from the fact that simple imagination seems more true than complicated truth.

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There are truths that are impossible for us to grasp correctly if we have not first gone down certain paths.

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An idea can be great without being true.

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Some people analyze their weaknesses so persistently that they manage to give them a different name.

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I like it, in love, both parties are looking for a counterpart of the opposite sex: for this reason, in love, we will search forever without finding it.

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Anyone who can write equally and beautifully about what they believe in and what they don't believe in can be a craftsman, but not a writer.

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Not a single river has yet lost hope of one day reaching the sea. Only man is a river that despairs, even though it has a sure bed.

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To translate is to conquer. A nation can conquer another by translating its literature into its own language. Here is the lofty and noble way of conquest. The conquered people lose nothing, but the conqueror grows and rises.

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The silence around me is so great that I can almost hear the moonlight tapping on the window. An alien voice was born in my chest and it sang of a desire that was not mine.

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Do not resist evil and do not return evil with evil.

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In the end, no nation is so corrupt and evil that those who belong to it do not sacrifice themselves for it.

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It is probably an old mistake to believe that poets reveal something from the depths of their being in their works. The trees on the hills have been bearing fruit since spring. But this did not make their secret any clearer.

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Everything happens unconsciously. The snake places its green sons among the leaves and does not even look back. The trees drop golden leaves on the ground, but when they fall in the mud, they do not bend down for them. God, without realizing it, without love, without pain, creates angels like tears in the eye.

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The true moral strength of people can also be learned from how tenaciously they cling to their prejudices.

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Our self often manifests itself better in a state of mind that we feel is more alien to our being. It's strange, we feel further away when we are closer.

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A person can desire something so strongly, so agonizingly, that we no longer enjoy the fulfillment: too much mental energy has gone into it.

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Not all rivers flow into the sea - some are lost in the sands of the desert.

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The stars don't make noise in the sky. Yes - I should be satisfied.

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Those states of mind that apparently have no reason have the deepest cause.

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For most people, the mysterious becomes natural not because they manage to understand it, but because they get used to it.

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Jesus was crucified by the Pharisees only once, but by the Christians countless times.

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The words of the Bible, according to which God created man in his own image and likeness, do not mean that God is a man in heaven, but that man is God on earth.

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The common man is known for being amazed at everything; and its simplicity is also about not being surprised enough at some things.

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The philosophy of Repkény: "You can only get high by crawling!"

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The words that we do not utter, the words that remain in us, also reveal our being, completely.

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Moral laws change according to place and time. Some see this as an excuse not to observe either.

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Today's Day of Faith no longer begins with the self-conscious "I believe", nor with the doubtful "I don't believe", but with the tragic "I want to believe".

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If you make concessions to Satan and negotiate with him, you can be sure that he will defeat and convince you in the debate.

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We know plants that, when in bloom, give off such a powerful scent that it scares you away from close quarters. We have to move away to enjoy their scent.

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He who seeks treasure does not dig in the sky, but in the earth.

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Tragic fate of our time: we need a religion, but we can't find a god anywhere!

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The morality of a sage is never the morality of a hero.

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There are people who can boil without giving off heat, like water in a vacuum.

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We often stick to a belief not because it seems strictly justified, but because the contrary has not been proven.

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Once we realize that life has no meaning, there is nothing left but to give it meaning!