The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

The bite of conscience is indecent.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.