I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.
I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils
A strict master will not have understanding sons.
A young mistress is better than an old master.
There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.
In my dreams of Heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only Mozart has his own suite.
If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once.
No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.
Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.
Go back to the abyss! Fall into nothingness that awaits you and your master!
But I never plotted a master plan for following my dreams.
I’ve always hated Mondays, the whole lot of them. Too much whiplash, snapping the tired masses to attention. God’s way, perhaps, of reminding us that we are not masters of our fate, no matter how deluded we became during the weekend respite.
All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
Practice makes the master.
The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.
The true Christian delights to hear something about their Master. They like those sermons best which are full of Christ.
The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.
And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Some reviewed The Master on their knees, and while I respected its distinctive discordancy - can a movie be at once feverish and glacial? - I was unmoved.