Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.