Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.