Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.