Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.

Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.