I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.

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

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.