All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather t… - Friedrich Nietzsche

If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?

How does one become stronger? By deciding slowly; and by holding firmly to the decision once it is made. Everything else follows of itself.

When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet... Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole: nothing necessary remains in one's hands. Christianity presupposes that man does not know, cannot know, what is good for him, what evil: he believes in God, who alone knows it... it has truth only if God is the truth — it stands and falls with faith in God.