As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.

I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.