The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.

We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.