What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

We are all afraid of the truth.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.