Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.