When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.

Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.