A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.