Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.