The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.

Everyone only hears what he understands.