Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.

With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.