The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.