Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.