The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature