Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

Faith is the path of least resistance.

We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.