The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?