What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.

Life without music is no life at all.

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.