No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.