In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.