This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers.