When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.