"I listened for the echo, and I..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.”

“Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.”

“Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.”

“To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.”

“[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.”

“That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.”

“Needing approval is like saying 'your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself'.”

“Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.”

“When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.”