A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.