I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.