Sublime

Duty: where a man loves what he commands himself to do.

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognising a truth which has already been recognised by others.

active scepticism;

The things that are true, good, excellent, are simple and always alike, whatever their appearance may be.

German poetry is exquisitely beautiful—but only in German.

remember that the best education is often to discover these very simple truths for oneself, and learn to see how much there is in commonplaces.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published a similar cautionary tale titled “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.” Goethe’s poem (later popularized as a Walt Disney animation starring Mickey Mouse)

As Jean-Paul Sartre once stated: “If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.”

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.