Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.