What a man is begins to betray itself when his talent decreases-when he stops showing what he can do.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origin, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives; the greater, again, in proportion thereto, the outward restlessness, the confused flux of mankind, the polyphony of strivings.

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.