Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life.

... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!