Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.

Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.