He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster . . . when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes … - Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.

I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I cannot believe you.

We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.