A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.