So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.

A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up, gradually, a complete unit of consciousness. And each unit of consciousness is the living unit of that great social, religious, philosophic idea towards which humankind, like an organism seeking its final form, is laboriously growing.

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?