What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

What? You search? You would multiply yourself by ten, by a hundred? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you must allure the senses to it

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ''divine service.''

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.