The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.

Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression

If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.