When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days