He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.