There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

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.

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.