History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

One should steal only where one cannot rob.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!