One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.

I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.