Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

It is good insofar as it is not evil.

The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.

Transcendence: that which transcends experience.