One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.