Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.

To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.