Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

A vocation is the backbone of life.

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

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

So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.