Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.

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

Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.