We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.