The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.

To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.

Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.

If I’d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I’d never have known what I’ve lost. Do you see what I’m getting at? Sometimes it’s worse for us human beings to lose something dear to us than never to have had it at all.

But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life.