To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.