I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.

No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?