Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

One should never know too precisely whom one has married

I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.