One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!

As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.