You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

Certitude drives people mad.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.