Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.