Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.