Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.