The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.

Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.