Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

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

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.