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Of the spirit of women. - The spiritual power of a woman is best demonstrated by her sacrificing her own spirit to that of a man out of love of him an...more

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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented ...more

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They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, no...more

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We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find o...more

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Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance

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Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the crime par excellence against life--is the real sin...more

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The conviction reigns that it is only through the sacrifices and accomplishments of the ancestors that the tribe exists--and that one has to pay them ...more

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But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

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What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...

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This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies

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All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a...more

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The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.

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The satyr, as the Dionysiac chorist, dwells in a reality sanctioned by myth and ritual. That tragedy should begin with him, that the Dionysiac wisdom ...more

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And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

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One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understood. It is by no means an objection to a book when s...more