Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.