If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.

Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.