For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

All philosophy is a form of confession.

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.

Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.