Man is the cruelest animal.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.