What we share with another ceases to be our own.

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.

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

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.

As much as we all know that some things are easier said than done, we have to understand that if we don't say it, we may never do it.

Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

When you cross the line and you've won the race, to me, it's an amazing feeling.

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it

We all have different sides of our personalities, so I'd love to play some more different parts too.

Everyone has Love towards some thing or other, and that Love is a spark of the Divine; everyone has ultimately to base his life on some one Truth; that Truth is God.