All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

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