I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

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.

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

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