Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But the capitalist really depends on some religion of inequality. The capitalist must somehow distinguish himself from human kind; he must be obviously above it or he would be obviously below it.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.