A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

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

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.