One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself.

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.