When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.