All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

Fear is the mother of morality.

One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?