The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

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

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.