The Discipline Of Suffering, Of Great Suffering

To Become The Founder Of A New Religion One Must Be Psychologically Infallible In One's Knowledge Of A Certain Average Type Of Souls Who Have Not Yet Recognized That They Belong Together.

There Are Two Things A Real Man Likes - Danger And Play; And He Likes Woman Because She Is The Most Dangerous Of Play Things.

As Soon As A Religion Comes To Dominate It Has As Its Opponents All Those Who Would Have Been Its First Disciples.

The Surest Way To Corrupt A Youth Is To Instruct Him To Hold In Higher Esteem Those Who Think Alike Than Those Who Think Differently.

It Is Certainly Not The Least Charm Of A Theory That It Is Refutable; It Is Precisely Thereby That It Attracts The More Subtle Minds. It Seems That The Hundred-times-refuted Theory Of The "free Will" Owes Its Persistence To This Charm Alone; Some One Is Always Appearing Who Feels Himself Strong Enough To Refute It.