If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

The last Christian died on a cross.

...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.

One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.