Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

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.

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.