Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, 47 t h a n g o o d c u l t u r e w i t h o u t t h e disposition.

The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.

Nature alone is the master of true genius.

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?