What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

Become who you are. Make what only you can make.

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

Christianity is Platonism for the people.

I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.