I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

Show me that you are redeemed, and I will believe in your Redeemer.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.