The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be not to impart his own opinions but to kindle minds.

Learn from me if not by my precepts then by my example how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

The man form is higher than the angel form of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation because he aspires to freedom.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.