O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.