"Man must strive, and striving he must..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Willing is not enough, we must do.”

“A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.”

“Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.”

“In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.”

“Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.”

“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”

“Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.”

“Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.”

“Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.”