One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.

The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?

i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence.