There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

What doesn't kill you make you stronger.

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.