Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.

Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.