We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.