If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.