Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest

Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

Man is something that is to be surpassed.

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.