Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.

Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.