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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.