Play is the highest from of research.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?

...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

The important things are always simple.

School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.