The hour-hand of life.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.