Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.