Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

Man makes god in his own image.

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

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.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.