Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni.

Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.