"Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher"

"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom"

"Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace"

"I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation"

"The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs"

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind"

"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons"

"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired"

"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things"

"The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world"