What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

Great intellects are skeptical.