Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.