The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.

One has to know the size of one's stomach.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.