In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.