Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.