One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .

There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.