...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.