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.

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

The noble soul reveres itself

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.