The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.