Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

On every parable you ride to every truth.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.