If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.