What matters in art is not thinking but making.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.