Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.