I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

If I say to the moment: ‘Stay now! You are so beautiful’!

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this...

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

It’s in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.

Evet Wilhelm, bazen bir an için kalkıp gitme, bağları koparma cesareti buluyorum kendimde, keşke nereye gideceğimi bilsem! heralde giderdim.

Ich mögte beten wie Moses im Koran: Herr mache mir Raum in meiner engen Brust.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

If your treat an individual … as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without...

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

While man’s desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking

He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

To a valet no man is a hero

If you have any faith, give me, for heaven’s sake, a share of it! Your doubts you may keep to yourself, for I have a plenty of my own

The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

Don’t dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

Fortunately a human being can comprehend only a certain degree of unhappiness; anything beyond it destroys him or leaves him cold. There are situations in which fear and hope become one and the same, cancel...

Grant me one hour on love’s most sacred shoresTo clasp the bosom that my soul adores,Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours.

When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from...

Die Welt ist voller Torheit, Dumpfheit, Inkonsequenz und Ungerechtigkeit. Es gehört viel Mut dazu, diesen nicht das Feld zu räumen.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

I’ve studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine — and even, alas! Theology — from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

A man that all the world hates, there must be something about him.

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies

A thinking man ‘ s greatest pleasure is to have searched for the knowable, and to have stood in awe before the unknowable.

As our inclinations, so our opinions

It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united

Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.