The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

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

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live