A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.