Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.