If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.