Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
Motives are causes experienced from within.
The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.