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

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.