The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.