Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.

This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!

Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.