He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.

One has to do something new in order to see something new.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.