Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!