Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves