I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

No victor believes in chance.

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.