The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.