A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.