The Christian church is an encyclopaedia of prehistoric cults and conceptions of the most diverse orgiin and that is why it is so capable of proselytising: it always could and it can still go wherever it pleases and it always found and it always finds something similar to itself to which it can adapt itself and gradually impose upon it a Christian meaning.

But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation -- all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.

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

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated.

The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play

Es ist oft kein geringes Zeichen von Humanität, einen Andern nicht beurteilen zu wollen und sich zu weigern, über ihn zu denken.