“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.”

“This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long”

“Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.”

“The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.”