When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

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.