I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.