"Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated into vice."

"The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison."

"The best way to spend the day is to run it in such a way that you don't even need to remember it."

"Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology."

"The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their ruin: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments."