If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

Genius never desires what does not exist.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.