Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

To the mean all becomes mean.