Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.
It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.
Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.