They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities.

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.