Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

the higher the development of women, the more they suffer from the 'patriotic' mandate to bear many children to replace the nation's losses. For they know that, from the point of view of their personal development as well as that of the race, fewer but better children are to be preferred.

All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.

Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.

The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.