There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.