Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

All philosophy is a form of confession.

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.