He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

Precaution is better than cure.

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in the particular. From the former procedure there ensues allegory, in which the particular serves only as illustration, as example of the general. The latter procedure, however, is genuinely the nature of poetry; it expresses something particular, without thinking of the general or pointing to it.