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

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Christianity is religion for the executioner.

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.