He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

The last Christian died on a cross.

One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.