He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

Every word is a prejudice.