To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

Where you see difficulty, I see opportunity.

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.

Things you can get access to, you should never memorize.

No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.