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.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.