What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.

What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.