The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.