I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

Every word is a preconceived judgment.

Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.