In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.

God is the pain of the fear of death

People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.