The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.