Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.

Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.