“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”

“The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.”

“There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.”

“Is man one of God’s blunders, or is God one of man’s blunders?”

“What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?”

“Thus do the gods justify the life of man: they themselves live it--the only satisfactory theodicy!”

“Woman was God’s second mistake. ”