Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.