How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.