The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.

In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.

Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.