No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity.

Weep, for the light is dead.

I feel that I am a man of destiny.