Become who you are. Make what only you can make.
A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end “No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous”.
I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!
To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.
What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
Triumph depends on a roll of Fate’s dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.
Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.
To have and to want more that is life.
The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!
One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor’s maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.
The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.
What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.
Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.
However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.
Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.
In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.
Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.
Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.
How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe – without music, life would be an error.