The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves.

We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?