Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.