Not joy but joylessness is the mother of debauchery.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be entreated not to hit the nail at all.
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premisses of which no one has yet dared to draw the conclusions that will follow in a thousand years.
In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain. Either you already reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Words are only symbols for the relations of things among themselves and to us, and nowhere touch absolute truth.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
The pride connected with knowing and sensing lies like a blinding fog over the eyes and senses of men, thus deceiving them concerning the value of existence.
The admiration of a quality or of an art may be so strong as to deter us from aspiring to possess that quality or art.
Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
Our character is determined more by the absence of certain experiences than by the experiences we have undergone.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.