There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.