The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.