His modesty amounts to deformity.
Freedom is a system based on courage.
The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.
There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.
The federal government can't remodel every firehouse and buy every new policeradio in the name of Homeland Security.
The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.