That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.