At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

At heart I am a warrior.

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead