Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one’s ability to do so.
Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.
There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.
The true word leads; the untrue misleads.
One reads in order to ask questions.
If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.
From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man’s wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.
Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.
There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.
There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.
To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.
From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.
The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.
Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.
There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.
There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.