A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.

Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.