By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.

It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?