Woman was God's second mistake.

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?

There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.