What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.