Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

To think too much is a disease.