If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.