We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.