Great intellects are skeptical.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

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

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.