But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.