Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.