The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs