A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.