The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.