There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.