“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.”

“Nature turns all malfaisance to good.”

“Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.”

“Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it”