Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

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

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

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.

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.