Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.

Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.