What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.