Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.