When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.

Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.