But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.