People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.