Human, All Too Human.

Everything That Is Profound Loves The Mask: The Profoundest Things Have A Hatred Even Of Figure And Likeness.

Faith Is The Path Of Least Resistance.

For Such Is Man: A Theological Dogma Might Be Refuted To Him A Thousand Times - Provided However, That He Had Need Of It, He Would Again And Again Accept It As True. Belief Is Always Most Desired, Most Pressingly Needed Where There Is A Lack Of Will. Fanaticism Is The Sole "volitional Strength" To Which The Weak And Irresolute Can Be Excited, As A Sort Of Hypnotising Of The Entire Sensory-intellectual System.

The Man Who Sees Little Always Sees Less Than There Is To See; The Man Who Hears Badly Always Hears Something More Than There Is To Hear.

The Destiny Of The Human Race Is To Widen The Gap Separating It From The Lower Races Of Animals. Any Code Of Morality Which Retains Its Permanence And Authority After The Conditions Of Existence Which Gave Rise To It Have Changed, Works Against This Upward Progress Of Man.