What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.