We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite!

Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead