Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

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

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.