Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

If you want to reach the infinite, explore every aspect of the finite.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

There is no surer way of evading the world than by Art; and no surer way of uniting with it than by Art.

The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.

An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

What's it to you if I love you?

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

If any one asks me for good advice, I say I will give it, but only on condition that you promise me not to take it.

Error is related to truth as sleep to waking. I have observed that on awakening from error a man turns again to truth as with new vigour.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

It is difficult to know how to treat the errors of the age. If a man oppose them, he stands alone; if he surrender to them, they bring him neither joy nor credit.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

Know you the land where the lemon-trees bloom? In the dark foliage the gold oranges glow; a soft wind hovers from the sky, the myrtle is still and the laurel stands tall do you know it well? There, there, I would go, O my beloved, with thee!

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

Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we have to go to them so as to learn what they are like.

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

Investigate what is, and not what pleases.