Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.
At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.
Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me.