Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.