We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States."