You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.