I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

History is the autobiography of a madman.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion.

Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

An honourable public and a dishonourable dictator cannot live together; at the end, the latter goes!

I think we're paralyzed by the virtues of a combination of liberalism and bureaucracy. And Trump doesn't know any of that. All he knows, and he's like every other citizen, fed up with it.

This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.