Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

By losing your goal, You have lost your way.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

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.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.