What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.

Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.