And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.