“All truths are bloody truths to me.”

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

“When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.”

“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!”

“In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.”

“He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.”

“Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?”

“The gates of monarchsAre arched so high that giants may jet throughAnd keep their impious turbans on withoutGood morrow to the sun.”