Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.

"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.