It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.

Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.

Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.