So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.

What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.