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

You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.