Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.