Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

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

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.