What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.