If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.

To have more, you must first be more.

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.