That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

Plato was a bore.

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.