It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.