It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

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

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.