We ought to face our destiny with courage.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.