If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

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

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?