He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

Woman was God's second mistake.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.