The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it has been fabricated.

If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it too.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.