There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.