Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.