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

To the mean all becomes mean.

God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness