Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

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.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.