With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.