People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.