In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air.