Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privil...
Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong again and again - the reason being they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer.... Darwin forgot the mind (- that in Englis...
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by posses...
We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
In order that the concept of substance could originate--which is indispensable for logic although in the strictest sense nothing real corresponds to it--it was likewise necessary that for a long time...
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever...
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.