The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?