I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.