One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.