People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.

Great intellects are skeptical.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.