“intriguing people have to invent a noxious, dangerous party...”

“Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.”

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”

“It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over.""Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.”

“And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.”

“We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?”

“Nothing has been discovered, nothing has been invented. We can only know that we know nothing. And that's the highest degree of human wisdom.”