How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

Become who you are!

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.