If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.
Great souls suffer in silence.
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
The universe is one of God’s thoughts.
Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
Deep meaning lies often in childish play.
Where there is much freedom there is much error.
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, save where man comes with his torment.
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.
A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.
Only through Beauty’s morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.
When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
He who considers too much will perform little.
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.