The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.