Frases de Constantin Brunner

« Los hombres siempre están haciendo dos cosas al mismo tiempo: actuar egoístamente y hablar moralmente.
[Men are forever doing two things at the same time: acting egoistically and talking moralistically],. »

« Los juicios habituales son juicios interesados y nos dicen menos sobre la naturaleza de la persona juzgada que sobre el interés de quien juzga.
[The usual judgments are judgments of interest and they tell us less about the nature of the person judged than about the interest of the one who judges]. »

« Sócrates y Cristo nos hablan constantemente de la humanidad... Ellos, personas extraordinarias, eternamente vivas, penetran en la profundidad sin fundamento de la naturaleza humana y comprenden el habla de las personas comunes y corrientes.
[Socrates and Christ speak to us everlastingly of mankind. … It belongs to the great, to the greatest men to say how things are with mankind, how they stand in its innerness and which way it is going; it belongs to Socrates and Christ. These absolutely extraordinary, eternally alive people penetrate to the groundless depth of human nature and understand the speech of ordinary people, of those who are scarcely alive from one day to the next]. »