A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!