I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

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