The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.

The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!