"The quest for philosophy's beginning is idle, for everywhere in all beginnings we find only the crude, the unformed, the empty, and the ugly. What matters in all things is the higher levels."

"Morality is herd instinct in the individual."

"Woman was God's second mistake."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter."

"One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes."

"If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows."

"This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them."

"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives."

"Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracya€|"

"Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man."

"Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by."