Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

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.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.

Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.