How is it? Is man only a mistake of God? Or God only a mistake of man?
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she was a perfectly rational being?
How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!
He is attached to woman—or rather he attaches woman—not to take pleasure in her but to take pleasure in himself.[about man]
Happiness is not the portion of man.
God of heaven! and is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason, or after he has lost it?
God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
From a political point of view, there is but one principle; the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty.
For what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!
For the secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for.[Ибо тайна бытия человеческого не в том, чтобы только жить, а в том, для чего жить.]
