One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.