Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.