The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.