To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.