Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.

One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.

Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.