The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.

As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.

This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake -- the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism -- how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.

Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting.