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.

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.