The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.