There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul.

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.

That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for deciding between diverse interests, then voting, of course, can be regarded as a humane and civilized process.

Life is to blame for everything.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.