What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.