Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves.
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea!
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place