Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.

It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a strong feeling of guilt - are likely to be the most fervent in imposing their faith on others.

The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.