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

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Pain makes hens and poets cackle.