Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.