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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.