Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.