Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.