What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .

The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

Everyone who enjoys thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. -- Herein lies the difference between them that create and them that enjoy.

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not