Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)