What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

Some men are born posthumously.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.