Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.