The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.