We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

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

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.