Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

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

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.

I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.