However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.