The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.