It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.