Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.