Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

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.

I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

All philosophy is a form of confession.