The World As I See It

Schopenhauer’s saying, that “a man can do as he will, but not will as he will,” has been an inspiration to me since my youth up,

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

In politics not only are leaders lacking, but the independence of spirit and the sense of justice of the citizen have to a great extent declined.

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community

Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science

Heroism by order, senseless violence, and all the pestilent nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism—how I hate them!