In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.

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