Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.

If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.

One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.