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.

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.

Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?

Enough or not...it will have to do