Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

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

The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned.

If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.