Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.