The Thinking It Took To

In Every True Searcher Of Nature There Is A Kind Of Religious Reverence, For He Finds It Impossible To Imagine That He Is The First To Have Thought Out The Exceedingly Delicate Threads That Connect His Perceptions

The Aim (of Education) Must Be The Training Of Independently Acting And Thinking Individuals Who, However, See In The Service To The Community Their Highest Life Problem.

The State Exists For Man, Not Man For The State. The Same May Be Said Of Science. These Are Old Phrases, Coined By People Who Saw In Human Individuality The Highest Human Value. I Would Hesitate To Repeat Them, Were It Not For The Ever Recurring Danger That They May Be Forgotten, Especially In These Days Of Organization And Stereotypes.

We Are All Very Ignorant. What Happens Is That Not All Ignore The Same Things.

Strange Is Our Situation Here On Earth. Each Of Us Comes For A Short Visit, Not Knowing Why, Yet Sometimes Seeming To Divine A Purpose. From The Standpoint Of Daily Life, However, There Is One Thing We Do Know: That Man Is Here For The Sake Of Other Men - Above All For Those Upon Whose Smiles And Well-being Our Own Happiness Depends.