Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.