If I love you, what business is it of yours?

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

On all the peaks lies peace.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

In art the best is good enough.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

I call architecture frozen music.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

A useless life is an early death.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply!

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Doubt grows with knowledge.