Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.

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

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

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.

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.

We live in a world we ourselves create.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.