I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.