We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.