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

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

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

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.