Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.