Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.