The love of power is the demon of mankind.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.