I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

The good displeases us when we are not up to it.