One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!

And nobody lies as much as the indignant do.

The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.

Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers.

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?