I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.