Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.