His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself.