Go up close to your friend but do not go over to him! We should respect the enemy that is in our friend - Friedrich Nietzsche

You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!

It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author — and that he did not learn it better.

Alienated from the present. There are great advantages in for once removing ourselves distinctly from our time and letting ourselves be driven from its shore back into the ocean of former world views. Looking at the coast from that perspective, we survey for the first time its entire shape, and when we near it again, we have the advantage of understanding it better on the whole than do those who have never left it.