Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.