Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. ... In the real world, all rests on perseverance.
He'd have improved if you'd not givenHim a mere glimmer of the light in heaven;He calls it Reason, and it has only increasedHis power to be beastlier than a beast.
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 gen...
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.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
A useless life is an early death.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
All force strives forward to work far and wideTo live and grow and ever to expand;Yet we are checked and thwarted on each sideBy the world's flux and swept along like sand:In this internal storm and o...
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.