There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.

In large States public education will always be extremely mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is at best only mediocre.

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

Always be bold in everything you do, because boldness has genius, power and magic in it which makes impossibility possible

Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.

The heart of science is measurement.

Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author.

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?

When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.