Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

How much beer is in German intelligence?

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!