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

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.