“Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.”

“The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.”

“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.”

“Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters”

“one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.”

“He who does not lie does not know what truth is.”

“Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.”