That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.