When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.