So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.

Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.

What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.