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

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

Certitude drives people mad.

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.