Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?