Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.