Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.