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

So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

It is opposition that makes us productive.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

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