What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

When he put his arms around me, and held me to his chest, everything in me settled. When he spoke into my ear, it all came loose again, as if his words evaporated the gravity of my mind.

Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.