One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts – they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.

A man is well educated when he knows where to find what he doesn’t know.

Man’s nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn’t know.

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.

Gratitude is the moral memory of mankind.

In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate.

Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any systematic and definitive completeness would be, at least, a self-illusion. Perfection can here be obtained by the individual student only in the subjective sense that he communicates everything he has been able to see.

Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone.

...wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space...