On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

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

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.

Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?