We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

Only the soul that loves is happy

What we do not understand we do not possess.