The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!