Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.