The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.