...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.

I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.

Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.