Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.