Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.