If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

To know where a thing is we must have found it.

New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.

One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.

To make something you have to be something.

If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!

You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.