“In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”

“The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the cross.”

“Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.”

“No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.”

“In truth, nothing could be more opposed to the purely aesthetic interpretation and justification of the world which are taught in this book than the Christian teaching, which is, and wants to be, only moral and which relegates art, every art, to the realm of lies; with its absolute standards, beginning with the truthfulness of God, it negates, judges, and damns art.”

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

“One cannot refute Christianity; one cannot refute a disease of the eye.”