Collection
Aphorisms
Short, sharp thoughts that say everything in a single sentence.
128 aphorisms
Philosophy
The first step of wisdom is to accuse everything; the last, to make peace with everything.
The ordinary mind always conforms to the prevailing opinion and the prevailing fashion.
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.
We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
He who slays a king and he who dies for him are alike idolaters.
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters.
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
