You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.