“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

The English are a nation of consummate cant.