At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part of mankind is capable of such despair. Christianity lies in wait for such as those and pursues them