Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

The people rate strength before everything.