“Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.”

“Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.”

“All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.”

“To judge a man means nothing other than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?”

“All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.”

“Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.”

“It is better to seek spirituality than materialism.”

“....I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotiaby the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was bes...”

“Eyes blinded by the fog of thingscannot see truth.Ears deafened by the din of thingscannot hear truth.Brains bewildered by the whirl of thingscannot think truth.Hearts deadened by the weight of thi...”

“What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself.”

“In a struggle against a revolutionary idea it is only possible to use ideological elements which are a thousand times more radical, or adopt principles which represent a total reaction against them.”

“Its not stress that kills us, its our reaction to it.”