Sublime

The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.

Je sais bien que nous ne sommes pas tous égaux, que nous ne pouvons l'être ; mais je soutiens que celui qui se croit obligé de se tenir éloigné de ce qu'on nomme le peuple, pour s'en faire respecter, ne vaut pas mieux que le poltron qui, de peur de succomber, se cache devant son ennemi.

“Und wenn ich geh, dann geht nur ein Teil von mir.”

There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again.

As Goethe’s maxim goes, “The greatest respect an author can have for his public is never to produce what is expected but what he himself considers right and useful for whatever stage of intellectual development has been reached by himself and others.”

To be and remain true to oneself and others, is to possess the noblest attribute of the greatest talents.

Goethe said, “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”