But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.