We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.

Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.