All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

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