Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

One does not kill by anger but by laughter.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.