School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

When you say, 'I can’t do that,' you're expressing yourself incorrectly. You should say, 'I couldn’t do that before.'

... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.