It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.