The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

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.