It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world.

Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.