It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.

Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.