Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.

Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.