In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees.
Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.
One repays a teacher badly if one only remains a pupil.
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.