A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.

Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89

In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.

Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.

Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'.

For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding.

Rejection is a blade to the heart. It's the worst kind of pain.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.

The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

Who says soul has only one colour?

Heaven and hell are not geographical, they are psychological, they are your psychology.

It is our first duty to serve society.

Plato rarely if ever states anything about himself clearly.

Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching.

Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.