What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.