What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.