The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.