Success has always been a great liar.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.