There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

This verse gets me through each day, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the lord is my shepherd!

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.