We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

I have forgotten my umbrella.

He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.