I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.

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.

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.