Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

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.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.