Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

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.