I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

On every mountain height is rest.

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.