If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.

To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.