Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.