A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.

Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices