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

Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothi….

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submissio….

This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the ….

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..

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job s….

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..

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look ….

History is the autobiography of a madman..

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks..

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..

People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering tha….

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of tho….

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scener….

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 wh….

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

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 d….

I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of t….

One must open men's eyes, not tear them out..

The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie..

History knocks at a thousand gates at every moment, and the gatekeeper is chance. We shout into the mist for this one or that one to be opened for us….