You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.

Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.