Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.