One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

Energy wasted on negative ends.

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.

Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.