"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

And nobody lies as much as the indignant do.

It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad.

O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.