No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.

Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

My name is only an anagram of toilets.

It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

Home is where one starts from.