The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.

All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing

Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.

Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species

A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.