In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. ... In the real world, all rests on perseverance.
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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.
Everything is hard before it is easy
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
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.
Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done.
Colors are light's suffering and joy
The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become.
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
Superstition is the poetry of life.
It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.
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...
Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new
