If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.