Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.