Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is just two times two, and that is what we call four for short. But four is nothing new at all. And thus it goes on and on in its conclusions, except that in the higher formulas the identity fades out of sight.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

If you want to make life easy, make it hard.