"The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a co…"

"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."

"A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man."

"The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time."

"Man is at bottom a savage, horrible beast. We know it, if we look at the origin of society."