Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

One does not kill by anger but by laughter.

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

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

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.