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

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now has measured up to and, strictly considered, no one should. With all their study and effort, people are directed to what is outside, to the world about them, and they are kept busy coming to know this and to master it to the extent that their purposes require. . . . How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.