Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.