Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set ap...
Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledgefor mankind in polished speechesthat are no more than vaporous windsrustling the fallen leaves in autumn.
A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Love does not dominate it cultivates.
National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)
All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
I will say nothing against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of genuin...
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
I call architecture frozen music.
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.