“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”

“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”

“We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.”

“Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.”

“Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived… I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.”

“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”

“I do not think that the wireless waves I have discovered will have any practical application.”

“Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn human beings.”

“You are shaking more dictating the sentence, that I am receiving it.”

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.”

“A man and a woman truly in love is the only spectacle of this world worthy of being offered to the gods.”

“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”

“To be truly great, one must be with the people, not above them.”

“Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve.”

“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”