For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.

Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?

You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.