One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'

Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!

THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds.

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.