“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.”

“I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.”

“Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.”

“I should be suspicious of what I want.”