I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.

The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.