Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.