The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.