There are no egoistic or unegoistic actions: both concepts are psychological absurdities.

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

And this hypocrisy found I worst amongst them, that even those who command feign the virtues of those who serve.

Every word is a prejudice.

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.