What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.