A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

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