"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

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

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?