Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.

Reason is the slave of passion.

Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth