It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.