God: personified incomprehensibility.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law; 2) a religious: do good because it is God's will, out of love of God; 3) a human: do good because it will promote your happiness, out of self-love; 4) a political: do good because it will promote the welfare of the society of which you are a part, out of love of society having regard to yourself. But is this not all one single principle, only viewed from different sides?

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

They do not think, therefore they are not.