"In order to win a man to a particular truth, it is necessary to find him where he is and to begin there."

"I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me. But I went away — yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of t…"

"The highest good is not to be understood as an abstract, but as a concrete, as a personality."

"The greatest good to a human being is to be a human being, a truth that is not grasped by those who believe they have become something higher."

"The most common deception of all is the deception that one is not deceived."