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

Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.