There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead

The real question is: How much truth can I stand?

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.