Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

Everything seems stupid when it fails.

Without God all things are permitted.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.