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

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.