Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.