A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge.

I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.

If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.

Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.