For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

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

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.