Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

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

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Superstition is the poetry of life.