“The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...”

“The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.”

“For this is how things are: the diminution and leveling of European man constitutes our greatest danger, for the sight of him makes us weary.—We can see nothing today that wants to grow greater, we suspect that things will continue to go down, down, to become thinner, more good-natured, more prudent, more comfortable, more mediocre, more indifferent, more Chinese, more Christian—there is no doubt that man is getting 'better' all the time.”

“In revenge and in love woman is more barbaric than man is.”

“as the "people of the centre" in everysense of the term, the Germans are more intangible, more ample, more contradictory, more unknown, more incalculable, more surprising, and even more terrifying than other peoples are to themselves:--they escape DEFINITION, and are thereby alone the despair of the French.”

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”

“One should not go into churches if one wishes to breathe pure air.”