Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. ... In the real world, all rests on perseverance.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
On all the peaks lies peace.
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.
We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.