As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153