The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

Love, too, has to be learned.

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies

But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?