Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier..

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it..

Life is to blame for everything..

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talent….

Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn't take any word literally, else the world becomes a madhouse..

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it..

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. O….

... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step o….

Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between that perso….

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

Wordsworth's particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was--to Plato and wh….

An impractical man--which he not only seems to be, but really is--will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his dealings with others. He will en….

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic..

We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The f….

I am not only convinced that what I say is false, but also that what one might say against it is false. Despite this, one must begin to talk about it….

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is u….

Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today..

A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success..

... 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 wit….

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

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument.