When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.