The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.

A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.