The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?