Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of any one. For no one can judge a criminal, until he recognises that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that he perhaps is more than all men to blame for that crime.

Then this God does exist according to you?'He does not exist, but He is. In the stone there is no pain, but in the fear of the stone is the pain. God is the pain of the fear of death. He who will conquer pain and terror will become himself a god.

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.

Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.