There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.

And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

The universe without music would be madness.

Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.