"We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it."

"All our dignity consists in thought. It is by this that we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time, which we cannot fill. Let us endeavor, then, to think well; this is the principle of moral…"

"The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance."

"The true morality is to laugh at morality."

"What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth, depository of truth, a sewer of uncerta…"