Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.