It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

The universe without music would be madness.

Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking