A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.