Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest ac…

I embrace hardship and privation with ecstatic delight; I want everything the world holds; I would go to prison or to the scaffold for the sake of the experien…

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. Its overshadowing formlessness obsesses the mind. The way to beat an en…

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

'A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.'

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.