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

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

I am not a man, I am dynamite!

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.