Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.

Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

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.