In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.