"What is the 'I'? A man at a window sees the passers-by; if I pass by, can I say that he saw me? No; for he did not think of me in particular. But if he loves someone, and I am that someone, then he lo…"

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

"Cleopatra's nose: had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed."

"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…"

"All our dignity consists in thought."