The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.

The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?