The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest.

What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.