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

When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.