We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

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.

The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Art is the proper task of life.