The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.

How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.