"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

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

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.