If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?
My difficulties belong to me!
Man knows much more than he understands.
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.
I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.
No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.
Nobody can be rich and stupid for more than one generation.