When Man Does Not Have Firm, Calm

I Know No Other Way To Associate With Great Tasks Than As Play: As A Sign Of Greatness, This Is An Essential Presupposition.

To Do Great Things Is Difficult; But To Command Great Things Is More Difficult.

People To Whom Their Daily Life Appears Too Empty And Monotonous Easily Grow Religious; This Is Comprehensible And Excusable, Only They Have No Right To Demand Religious Sentiments From Those Whose Daily Life Is Not Empty And Monotonous.

Every Attainment, Every Step Forward In Knowledge, Follows From Courage, From Hardness Against Oneself, From Cleanliness In Relation To Oneself.

A Few Hours' Mountain Climbing Make Of A Rogue And A Saint Two Fairly Equal Creatures. Tiredness Is The Shortest Path To Equality And Fraternity - And Sleep Finally Adds To Them Liberty.