Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.

The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.