Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.