A short saying often contains much wisdom.

War contains so much folly as well as wickedness that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

Every legend moreover contains its residuum of truth and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat every heartbreak every loss contains its own seed its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development and epitomizes both.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.