Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.