It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.