Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

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.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.

Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.