One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.

Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.