The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.