Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."