What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

With knowledge grows doubt.

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.