The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.

Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.

If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.