When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.