Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.