A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.