What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.

Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.

One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.