If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.