Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.