When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.