"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier, and simpler."

"Democracy represents the disbelief in great human beings and an elite society."

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."

"I assess the value of a man by how much he can endure without falling apart."

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to de…"