He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
