We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

How do I work? I grope.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.

Whoever is devoid of the capacity to wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment, might just as well be dead for he has already closed his eyes upon life.

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.