I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.