To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

The living have never shown me how to live.

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.