All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.