Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.

To have and to want more that is life.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

One should never know too precisely whom one has married

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.