We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

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.

Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.