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

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.

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.

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.

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 destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.