A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)

The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.