Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.