The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.