Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers.

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

In the end one only experiences oneself.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.