Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.

Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.