The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!

All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.

Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.