In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

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

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.