Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?