"

In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.

"

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

"

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

"

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

"

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

"

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

"

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth....more

"

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

"

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage

"

Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that c...more

"

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

"

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

"

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play o...more

"

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

"

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance,...more