Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.