Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.

A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.