Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

The good displeases us when we are not up to it.