To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'

Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.