The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.