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

Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

What doesn't kill you make you stronger.