Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Some men are born posthumously.