That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.

Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!