It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.