Out of my own great woe I make my little songs..

All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher w….

In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were….

Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he fi….

She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin..

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course, i….

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is express….

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world..

Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or….

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?.

Thought is invisible nature..

I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is not lame, But really a handsome and charming man….

Ich glaube sogar, durch Leidensk a« mpfe k o« nnten dieTiere zu Menschen werden. I believe that by suffering even animals could be made human..

The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers..

The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear..

Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss..

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man..

The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, a….

Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too..

You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and d….

Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life..