Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

Man is bound to lie about himself

you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.