Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.