Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!

In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

Great intellects are skeptical.

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?

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