Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!