In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

Love is more afraid of change than destruction.

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.