Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.