In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

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

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.