There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

No artist tolerates reality.

Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.