The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.

Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

Every profound spirit needs a mask.