It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Almost two thousand years, and no new god!