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

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.