It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom.