Love life more than the meaning of it?

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

Man is bound to lie about himself

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.

I myself will perhaps cry out with all the rest, looking at the mother embracing her child's tormentor: 'Just art thou, O Lord!' but I do not want to cry out with them. While there's still time, I hasten to defend myself against it, and therefore I absolutely renounce all higher harmony. It is not worth one little tear of even that one tormented child who beat her chest with her little fist and prayed to 'dear God' in a stinking outhouse with her unredeemed tears!