The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion

I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.