It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.