Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

By losing your goal, You have lost your way.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.