Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.

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.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

Colors are light's suffering and joy