Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

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.

Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.

All philosophy is a form of confession.

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.