There is nothing truer in this world than the love of a good dog.
False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.
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.
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing, never lies for the sake of a pose, and conceals nothing out of coquetry. She stops before the facts as an investigator, sometimes as a physician, never as an executioner, and still less with hostility and irony.
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.
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
Ultimately, the definition of bravery is not being afraid of yourself.
If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going to have a schizophrenic crackup. The person has put themselves off center. They have aligned themselves with a programmatic life and it's not the one the body is interested in at all.
In my writing, I'm often describing a universal situation. A situation in which human beings often choose to violate each other. Sometimes I happen to explore that in terms of the blackwhite dynamic. Generally, a white person does not like me to say, or does not like to be told, "You know, what you did was incredibly wrong. "