Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.