Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time — in the form of legislation, religions, and customs.

Often a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.

The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.