You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

Man makes god in his own image.

Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?