Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

Talking about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.