Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.