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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need tosearch.”

“I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.”

“Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.”