Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings

Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.

He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

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.