Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship
There is no other teacher but your own soul.
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names
Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.
Life is rough so you gotta be tough.