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

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.