“The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.”

Character is perfectly educated will.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.

Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. And when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.