A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

The devil is an angel too.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.