Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad.