Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.