Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.