What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.