Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

Christianity is religion for the executioner.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

We can destroy only as creators

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.