What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.