You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.