Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?

If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.