The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!