Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.