We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.

The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.